A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In e ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
Mrs Guinness by LYNDSY SPENCE
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
Before Diana Mitford's disgrace as a social pariah, she was a celebrated member of the Bright Young Things, moving at the centre of 1920s and '30s London high society. She was a muse to many: Helleu painted her, James Lees-Milne worshipped her, Evelyn Waugh dedicated a book to her and Winston Churchill ...Show more
London's Triumph - Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City by Stephen Alford
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened ...Show more
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, receiv ...Show more
Pax Britannica Vol 2 by Jan Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height o ...Show more
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress Volume 1 by Jan Morris
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plan ...Show more
That Was the Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People by Andrew Brown
$34.00 AUD
Category: British
The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In Engl ...Show more
Black Door: Secret Intelligence and 10 Downing Street by Richard Aldrich
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron s National Security Council. At the beginning of the 20th Century the British intelligence system was underfunded and lacked influe ...Show more
Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World by Alan. Watson
$31.00 AUD
Category: British
Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the United ...Show more
Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and Kate Middleton from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Son, These Few Preciou ...Show more